Bread or cake pan.



Patented Aug. 7, |900.

M VOSSBECK BREAD UB CAKE PAN.

(Apphcahon filed Apr 23 1900 (Hu Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARIE VOSSBEOK, OF TRINIDAD, COLORADO.

BREAD OR CAKE PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,530, dated August "7, 1900.

Application tiled April 23, 1900.

To all whom t may concern:

Be itknown that I, MARIE VOSSBECK, aoitizen of the United States, and a resident of Trinidad, in the county of Las Animas and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bread or Cake Pans, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a pan particularly adapted for baking bread and having separable parts, the pan being so made that all the floor or shelf space of an oven may be utilized at one time.

Another purpose of the invention is to so construct the pan that the various parts may be quickly and conveniently detached and buttered or greased and again put together, and, furthermore, to so construct the pan that when the loaves have been baked the body and bottom of the pan may be removed from engagement with the partitions, which partitions will serve to hold the baked loaves separate and yet permit them to rapidly cool.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved pan. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isV a transverse section taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4L is a perspective view of the bottom of the pan.

The body A of the pan consists of end pieces 10 and side pieces 11, the said pieces being continuons or connected in any approved manner, and each end and side piece lO and 1l of the body of the pan is provided with an inwardly-extending bottom flange 12, (shown best in Fig. 2,) which flange serves to receive and support the bottom 13 of the pan, which is loosely placed in the body. Upon the inner face of each end 10 of the body A slideways 14 are formed, and slideways 15 are likewise formed upon or attached to the inner faces of the sides 11 of the body. In the drawings two slideways 14 are illustrated at each end of the body and a single slideway latter.

Serial No. 13,928. (No model.)

15 at each side of the body g but the number of slideways maybe increased or a less number may be employed, as may be found desirable.

The end slideways 14 are adapted to receive the end portions of longitudinal parti= tions 16, and these partitions are provided beL tween their ends with one or more slots 17, produced in their upper edges, in order that one or more transverse partitions 18 may be employed in connection with the longitudinal partitions 16. The transverse partitions 18 enter the slideways 15, and each transverse partition is provided with a lengthy transverse slot 19 in its under edge, which slots are adapted to receive the longitudinal partitions where the recesses 17 are made in the Under this arrangement a series of compartments is provided, in each of which a portion of dough may be placed to form a proper size of loaf.

The bottom 13 is provided with recesses 1lia at its ends and with recesses 15a at its sides in order that the bottom 13 may be readily placed in the body of the pan prior to place ing the partitions in position, the recesses in the margin of the bottom 13 being adapted to receive the slideways 14: and 15, attached to the body A of the pan. When the bread has been baked, the pan may be inverted and the body of the pan, together with the bottom, re; moved from the partitions, and the loaves may then be left within the compartments on a suitable board or support, and the said cornpartments will be open to a greater or a less extent and will permit the loaves of bread to rapidly cool.

The pan constructed as above set forth is very economic and insures the loaves being of about equal size, and the pan may be made of such dimensions that it will entend from front to rear and from end to end of the oven, either at the bottom of the oven or the surface of a shelf within said oven, and bread and cake may be baked at the same time in the same pan.

Having thus described my invention,

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters between them, said walls being also provided tween said end walls and side Walls and prowith inturned flanges at the bottom, a bottom vided with notches arranged to receivesairl adapted to rest on said flanges and provided projections, and intersecting partitions con- With notches arranged to receive said projecstructed to fit into said siideways. I3 5 tions, and intersecting partitions constructed In testimony whereof I have signed my to tit into said siideways, the partitions being naine to this specification in the presence of slotted and loosely engaged with each other. two subscribing Witnesses.

2. A pancomprising a frame consisting of MARIE VOSSBECK. end Walls and side walls having on their inner 'Vitnesses: Y 1o faces spaced projections forming siideways HANS VOSSBECK,

between them, a bottom arranged to fitbe- WVM. LITTLEFIELD. 

